Ansari (nisbat)

Ansari (Arabic: انصاری) is a Nesbat used in the Middle East and South Asia. It originates from Ansar (Arabic: انصار), the Medinan people that helped Islamic prophet Muhammad when he migrated from Mecca to Medina. The literal meaning of Ansar is "supporters".

Arabic usage

The name itself is not used as a surname among Arabs; patronymics are used instead. The word is added as a title to the end of the name, if one has an ancestor who was an Ansar. This use of a name is called "Nesbat" in Arabic, meaning "relation". In modern times, however, the surname Al-Ansari is widely used in many Persian Gulf and Arab nations. Ansari's are also located in sindh province they are basically from kandiaro and sakrand. Ansari blongs to royal families.

Iranian usage

In contrast to Arabic usage, Iranians use surnames instead of patronymics. In Iran, Ansari has become a surname. This has also happened with the "Tabatabai", also originally a Nesbat.

Pakistani and Indian usage

The Ansari surname is used in Pakistan, northern India and Bangladesh, to show a lineage or ancestral link to the Ansar of Medina. Through the various waves of migration from the Arabian Peninsula, Iran, Central Asia, and Afghanistan, descendants of the Ansar tribes arrived in the Indian subcontinent. These families mainly came either as scholars, government administrators and functionaries, soldiers or officers. Ansaris in the Indian Subcontinent may belong to either the Shi'a or the Sunni Muslim school of thought.

The main original settlements and concentrations of Ansaris on the Indian subcontinent, were in Multan, Sindh province, and Lilla, in western Punjab, Pakistan; and in Panipat, Saharanpur, Gorakhpur and Lucknow, in India.

Over a period of time, others, and many of the new Muslim converts, in India also identified themselves as Ansari, to show reverence to their Islamic faith. Many of these in northern India and Pakistan were involved in fabric manufacturing as weavers (Urdu: julahay). Often, but not necessarily, Ansari is used to identify a caste, as well. In the Indian Hindu caste system and in the Muslim baradari) system, different castes were traditionally associated with different trades or professions.

Notable Ansari people

• Abu Ayyub al-Ansari (576?–674?), companion of Prophet Muhammad
• Khwaja Muhammad Latif Ansari, scholar and descendant of Abu Ayyab al-Ansari
• Abu Mas'ud Al-Ansari, companion of Muhammad and narrator of hadith
• Habib ibn Zayd al-Ansari, sahaba and martyr of Islam
• Jabir ibn Abd-Allah al-Ansari (died 697), companion of Muhammad
• Abu Mas'ud Al-Ansari, companion of Muhammad
• Umayr ibn Sad al-Ansari, companion of Muhammad
• Habib ibn Zayd al-Ansari, companion of Muhammad
• Thameemul Ansari, Arab Sufi saint, with shrine in Kovalam, Tamil Nadu
• Sa'id ibn Aws al-Ansari (died 830), Arab linguist and narrator of hadith
• Khwaja Abdullah Ansari (1006–1088), Persian mystic and poet, and one of the descendants of Abu Ayyub Ansari
• Shams al-Din al-Ansari al-Dimashqi (1256–1327), Syrian Arab geographer
• Zakariyya al-Ansari (1420–1520), Egyptian Sufi mystic
• Morteza Ansari (1781–1864), Shia jurist from Dezful, Iran
• Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, (Hindi: ख़्वाजा अहमद अब्बास) (7 June 1914 – 1 June 1987), popularly known as K. A. Abbas, was an Indian film director.
• Sheikh Sadiq Ali Ansari (active 1901), Indian politician
• Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari (1880–1936), Indian nationalist and political leader
• Abdul Hakim Ansari (1893–1977), Indian Sufi of the Naqshbandiya, Chishti Orders
• Abdul Qaiyum Ansari (1905–1973), Indian active in the freedom struggle of India
• Mateen Ansari (c. 1915–1943), Indian soldier awarded George Cross for conspicuous gallantry in British army
• Abdul Haq Ansari (born 1931), Indian Islamic philosopher
• Zafar Ishaq Ansari (born 1932), Pakistani scholar of Islamic Studies
• SM Razaullah Ansari (born 1932), Indian physicist
• Mohammad Ebrahim Ansari (1936–2011), Iraqi Twelver Shi'a Marja
• Maulana Mohammad Abbas Ansari (born 1936), revolutionary Shiite Muslim leader in Jammu & Kashmir and Founder of Ittihadul Muslimeen
• Mohammad Hamid Ansari (born 1937), Vice President of India
• Muhammad Hanif Ansari (1937–1985), Pakistani politician, businessman and philatelist
• Mohammed Jaber Al-Ansari (born 1939), Bahraini philosopher
• Jamshed Ansari (c. 1945–2005), Pakistani film, television and radio actor
• Allama Mustafa Hussain Ansari, (1945–2006), Kashmiri writer and public speaker
• Furkan Ansari (born 1948), Indian politician
• Zain Ansari (born 1950), Pakistani politician
• Majead Ansari (born 1950), Iranian Vice President of Legal and Parliamentary Affairs
• Ayatollah Mohammad Hussein al-Ansari (born 1952), Shia scholar from Najaf, Iraq
• Afzal Ansari (born 1953), Indian politician
• Sheikh jarjees ansari, Great Islamic Philosopher (Maulana)
• Siamak Ansari (born 1969), Iranian television actor and director
• Amir Ansari (born 1970), Iranian-American entrepreneur
• Khalid A. H. Ansari, Indian entrepreneur, Chairman of Mumbai's Mid-Day Newspaper
• Aziz Ansari (born 1983), American stand-up comedian
• Faris Muslim al Ansari (born 1984), Afghan held in Guantanamo
• Jaber Ansari (born 1987), Iranian footballer
• Fahad Al Ansari (born 1987), Kuwaiti footballer
• Akbar Ansari (born 1988), English cricketer
• Karim Ansarifard (born 1990), Iranian footballer
• Zafar Ansari (born 1991), English cricketer
• Abdulaziz Rashid Al Ansari (born 1992), Qatari footballer
• Abdur Razzaque Ansari, Indian nationalist, freedom fighter and a weavers revolution leader
• Gholamreza Ansari, Iranian diplomat
• Ali Ansari, Iranian-British history professor
• Khizar Humayun Ansari, British race relations academic
• Salim Miya Ansari, Nepalese politician
• Mukhtar Ansari, Indian politician
• Sibakatullah Ansari, Indian politician
• Master Taj-ud-Din Ansari, Pakistani politician
• Rais Ansari, Indian Urdu poet
• Sahar Ansari, Pakistani Urdu poet, critic and scholar of Urdu literature and linguistics
• Mohammad Ansari, Pakistani cricketer
• Ali Al Ansari, UAE paralympic athlete
• Faheem Ansari, Indian accused of terrorism
• Mustafa al-Ansari, Saudi accused of terrorism
• Asad Ansari, Pakistani-Canadian accused of terrorism
• Keyvan Ansari, Iranian imprisoned student leader
• Mukhtar Ansari, Indian politician
• Sibakatullah Ansari, Indian politician

Notable Ansari Women

• Anousheh Ansari (born 1966), Iranian-American entrepreneur, first Iranian astronaut and backer of the Ansari X Prize
• Nazenin Ansari, Iranian journalist in exile
• Bushra Ansari (born 1956), Pakistani television presenter
• Noushafarin Ansari (born 1939), Indian-born Iranian librarian, educator and manager

Notable Ansari Scientist

• Abu al-Qasim al-ZahrawiAbu al-Qasim Khalaf ibn al-Abbas Al-Zahrawi (936–1013), (Arabic: أبو القاسم خلف بن العباس الزهراوي‎) also known in the West as Albucasis, was an Arab Muslim physician and surgeon who lived in Al-Andalus.

First Naats in islam

• Tala' al Badru 'AlaynaTala‘ al-Badru ‘Alaynā (Arabic: طلع البدر علينا) is a traditional Islamic song known as nasheed that the Ansar sang to the Islamic prophet Muhammad upon his arrival at Yathrib after completing the Hijra^[1][2] in 622 CE.^[3] The song is currently over 1400 years old, and one of the oldest in the Islamic culture.

• Banu AwsThe Banū Aws (Arabic: بنو أوس‎ Arabic pronunciation: [bænuː ˈæws], "Sons of Aws") or simply Aws (Arabic: أوس‎; also Romanized as Aus) was one of the main Arab tribes of Medina. The other was Khazraj, and the two, constituted the Ansar ("helpers [of Muhammad]") after the Hijra.

• Banu KhazrajThe Banu al-Khazraj (Arabic: بنو الخزرج‎) was one of the tribes of Arabia during Muhammad's era.^[4][5] The Banu al-Khazraj are renowned for their generosity and hospitality.
• Medina

See also ansari related

• Islam in India
• Momin Ansari
• Banu Khazraj
• Banu Aws
• Alawites
• Tala' al Badru 'Alayna
• Ansar (Islam)
• Brotherhood among the Sahabah

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